Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Alternative combination: Discinisca zapfei
Full reference: A. Radwanski and H. Summesberger. 2001. A new species of inarticulate brachiopods, Discinisca zapfei sp. n., from the Upper Triassic Zlambach Formation (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria), and a discussion of other Triassic disciniscans. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, A 102:109-129
Belongs to Bronzoria according to Y. Ishizaki and Y. Shiino 2024
See also Radwanski and Summesberger 2001
Sister taxa: Bronzoria bosniaca, Bronzoria discoides, Bronzoria recta, Bronzoria rhaetica, Bronzoria sibirica, Bronzoria spitsbergensis, Bronzoria taskrestensis, Bronzoria townshendi
Type specimen: NHMW 1999z0102/0001, a valve (dorsal valve). Its type locality is Kleiner Zlambachgraben, which is in a Norian shallow subtidal limestone in the Pedata Schichten Formation of Austria.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Kleiner Zlambachgraben
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